Word Finder - matter

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Substance, material.

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A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.

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What's the matter?;   state matters

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An approximate amount or extent.

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I stayed for a matter of months.

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The essence; the pith; the embodiment.

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Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.

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Pus.

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To be important.

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Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.

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(in negative constructions) To care about, to mind; to find important.

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To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

As a matter of fact, I think we're on completely different planets.

It was only a matter of days.

The Trinity--the three elements of matter--are sulphur, mercury, and salt.

As a matter of fact, I'm eating rainbow grass.

I don't know what is the matter with me today.

No matter what, you will always, always protect your family first.

The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet.

Doesn't matter to me.

It was not a matter of life but rather of death, as the saying is.

Papa, I have come on a matter of business.

When he returned to Moscow Pierre was handed a letter from Marya Dmitrievna asking him to come and see her on a matter of great importance relating to Andrew Bolkonski and his betrothed.

We can understand that the matter seemed like that to contemporaries.

Denisov, having given his name, announced that he had to communicate to his Serene Highness a matter of great importance for their country's welfare.

But what is the matter with you, Count?

Does it matter what I think?

Nicholas dismounted, and with Natasha and Petya, who had ridden up, stopped near the hounds, waiting to see how the matter would end.

The father and mother did not speak of the matter to their son again, but a few days later the countess sent for Sonya and, with a cruelty neither of them expected, reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas and for ingratitude.

Theoretically, no doubt, this is correct, but the typical members of the two groups are so different from one another that, as a matter of convenience, the retention of the two families seems advisable.

In the last stage (c) the exclusion of the ordinary Levites from all share in the priesthood of the sons of Aaron is looked upon as a matter of course, dating from the institution of priestly worship by Moses.

In other cases the inclusion of documents relating to the temple business, payments of tithes and other dues, salaries to temple officials, and such ceremonies as marriages, &c., which may have demanded the presence of the congregation and were at least partly religious in nature, have been allowed to complicate the matter.

It may further be added that materialism can be shown to be an inadequate philosophy in its attempts to account even for the physical universe, for this is inexplicable without the assumption of mind distinct from, and directive of, matter.

As a matter of fact, they are an alluvial deposit spread out by the same flood waters.

But the Transvaal War of 1899-1902, to which Australia sent 6310 volunteers (principally mounted rifles), and the gradual increase of military sentiment, brought the question more to the front, and more and more attention was given to making Australian defence a matter of local concern.

Another matter which deserves attention was the great drought which culminated in the year 1902.

The other colonies interested were anxious to bring the matter to a speedy termination, and readily agreed to this course of procedure.

Politics, which de Lesseps had always avoided, was his greatest enemy in this matter.

On this matter Philip would brook no opposition.

For the natural realist stands upon the common-sense position that minds and material objects have equally effective existence; while the idealist explains matter by mind and denies that mind can be explained by matter.

The pre-Socratics may be classed as naïve materialists in this sense; though, as at that early period the contrast between matter and spirit had not been' fully realized and matter was credited with properties that belong to life, it is usual to apply the term hylozoism to the earliest stage of Greek metaphysical theory.

Filled with blood, it was natural to regard it as the seat of the blood, and as a matter of fact one-sixth of the entire blood of man is in the liver, while in the case of some animals the proportion is even larger.

The mistake of speaking of the Sakai tribes as practically identical with the Semang or Pangan has very frequently been made, but as a matter of fact the two races are absolutely distinct from one another.

Its matter is olive oil, blessed by a bishop. It shall not be given except to a sick person whose death is apprehended.

Many of the ancient oaks that remain in England may date from Saxon times, and some perhaps from an earlier period; the growth of trees after the trunk has become hollow is extremely slow, and the age of such venerable giants only matter of vague surmise.

Every operation in which mind and matter are both concerned is an effect of neither, but the direct act of God.

Since it is impossible for us to make any alteration in the world of matter, all we can do is to submit.

The extraction (as is the case with all the rare earths) is a matter of great difficulty.

The terrigenous deposits consist of blue muds, red muds (abundant along the coast of Brazil, where the amount of organic matter present is insufficient to reduce the iron in the matter brought down by the great rivers to produce blue muds), green muds and sands, and volcanic and coral detritus.

The matter was settled by the Papal Legate, Simon de Brion, afterwards Pope Martin IV.

It was well known during the middle ages, and was largely used by William, archbishop of Tyre, for the first six books of his Belli sacri historic. In modern times its historical value has been seriously impugned, but the verdict of the best scholarship seems to be that in general it forms a true record of the events of the first crusade, although containing some legendary matter.

Herodotus mentions the temple dedicated to "Perseus" and asserts that Chemmis was remarkable for the celebration of games in honour of that hero, after the manner of the Greeks, at which prizes were given; as a matter of fact some representations are known of Nubians and people of Puoni (Somalic coast) clambering up poles before the god Min.

The great advantage of the tube anemometer lies in the fact that the exposed part can be mounted on a high pole, and requires no oiling or attention for years; and the registering part can be placed in any convenient position, no matter how far from the external part.

If we raise i lb of matter through a foot we do a certain amount of work against the earth's attraction; if we raise 2 lb through the same height we do twice this amount of work, and so on.

The conception of work and of energy was originally derived from observation of purely mechanical phenomena, that is to say, phenomena in which the relative positions and motions of visible portions of matter were all that were taken into consideration.

Francis Bacon expressed his conviction that heat consists of a kind of motion or "brisk agitation" of the particles of matter.

This shows that the principle of the dissipation of energy has control over the actions of those agents only whose faculties are too gross to enable them to grapple individually with the minute portions of matter which are the seat of energy.

The complainer entirely overlooks the fact that this is the kind of music in which such a phrase will certainly be heard again before we have time to forget it; and as a matter of fact the strings promptly repeat it fortissimo in a position which nothing can overpower.

The movement was especially strong in the diocese of Liege, and when Julienne, prioress of Mont-Cornillon near Liege (1222-1258), had a vision in which the need for the establishment of a festival in honour of the Sacrament was revealed to her, the matter was taken up with enthusiasm by the clergy, and in 1246 Robert de Torote, bishop of Liege, instituted such a festival for his diocese.

If he was hard and exacting in the matter of taxes, he spent them in the defence and improvement of his dominions, not in idle show or luxury.

This was matter of contract, and the hirer, who usually paid in advance, might demand a guarantee to fulfil the engagement.

From the continuous records of slack and strain combined with the weight of the cable it is a simple matter to calculate and plot the depths along the whole route of the cable as actually laid.